“There is only one Beethoven”

May 14, 2019

“There is only one Beethoven”

Everybody knows the Beethoven story: He’s a brilliant composer who faced hearing loss; a genius who couldn’t listen to his own masterpieces. But there’s a different way to consider the story we think we know.

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Thank you to Matthew Winn, director of the Listen Lab at the University of Minnesota, for his expertise on the fundamentals and realities of hearing loss. Portions of this episode were produced using audio samples from the Listen Lab. Thanks to Professor Steven Whiting from the University of Michigan School of Music.

This episode of Decomposed includes the following works from these recordings: